Previously on 24: 4am - 5am

I'm not going to overdo the review (if that's possible for me to say in all honesty)..let's just say that Jack's back is to the wall once again.

He's dying of a rapidly progressing seizure inducing disease that is turning his brain into the neural equivalent of swiss cheese. His terminally stupid daughter has turned up in the magical last hours of the season not to save his life, but to turn out to need saving...

...while his remaining efforts and energy would be better spent on saving the world.

The President's daughter (who I swing back and forth on -- is she stupidly evil, or evilly stupid?) is creating other issues, thus diverting the president from the world saving work she should be doing.

Agent Walker is sure to screw something up in her desire to exact revenge on Tony.

Even in a season where we've hardly had any female characters of note, I have to now say, we've shown up -- and we're here to create problems. And to (apparently) not solve them. (Focus, Mme. President. Focus.) That's what Jack is here to do.

So the last two hours, perhaps of our lives, for Jack Bauer...I can only wish that we'll have some stuff blow up real good before the world is saved.

(And it would also be good to know what happened to his nephew/son, his Dad, and what a babu is. We have our list of characters we'd like to see resurrected...and I'm kind of hoping that Tony lives through the season to be a nefarious bad guy next year.)

And of course, we can hope that Kim will survive long enough to save Jack's life.

(Or maybe he'll be put into a cryogenic container -- let's call it a canister -- and the next season of 24 will take place in 2050, when diseases caused by prions are curable and Jack can be thawed, cured, and taught the new technology required to save the world in the future.)

Until later...

(And the top photo is at Noah's Ark in the Wisconsin Dells...it is what I came up with when googling for an image with the phrase "the point of no return." The bottom photo is a cryogenics tank from one Titan Industries. Kids, I am not making this up.)